Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom
3. Now select the Recovery slider, and move it to the right until the red portions disappear; in the case of my image, I chose to continue moving the slider to show even more highlight detail. 4. Next move the Fill Light slider to the right, this will “dodge” the shadows. Continue adjusting until you have your desired effect. If the image doesn’t have enough contrast, don’t worry, we’ll get there next. 5. We’ll now carefully move the Black slider to add true blacks back to the image; move the slider until the blue overlay is just barely visible (too much blue indicates clipped shadow regions). If you’d like yet more contrast, the appropriately marked “Contrast” slider is a good way to massage the details – remember to be mindful of the blue overlays.
Step 4: New in ACR 5.0 are Selective Edits
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These can be applied in two ways. Let’s first look at brushes (K): these require only that you paint a selected region and then adjust the parameters of that area on the right side of the screen. Brushed areas can be added to (the default behavior after one is made), created and supplemented (“New”) or deleted (“Erase”). In this case I’ve auto-masked the figure to make it more of a dark, low contrast silhouette.
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